TMRAP — Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol

TMRAP, Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol, is a web service interface for interacting with Topic Maps servers developed by Ontopia and implemented in the OKS. TMRAP has both a REST and a SOAP flavour, and lends itself to a wide range of applications. It is, for example, used by the Vizigator to download Topic Maps fragments to the Vizlet.

Some material on TMRAP:

• Seamless Knowledge: Spontaneous Knowledge Federation using Topic Maps, visionary presentation on the use of TMRAP by Steve Pepper.
• TMRAP — Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol, technical paper from TMRA 2005 describing the protocol in detail, by Lars Marius Garshol.
• A Web Service Protocol for Topic Maps, the slides from the TMRA 2005 presentation, by Lars Marius Garshol.
• Practical TMRAPping: A Tutorial, the slides from a TMRA 2006 tutorial on the use of TMRAP, by Lars Marius Garshol.
• TMRAP support in the blog, a blog entry about a concrete TMRAP application, by Lars Marius Garshol.
• The WSDL interface definition file actually used by the OKS. To access the SOAP interface in the OKS you need a full OKS version.